KARACHI: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Sindh leaders urged the PTI government in center to remove Inspector General of Police (IGP), Sindh, Mushtaq Mehar for his failure to maintain the law and order situation in the province.
Addressing a press conference at the Insaf House, Opposition Leader in the Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh said the federal government’s measures aimed at rooting out criminal elements from Sindh would provide relief to the masses.
He said that the federal institutions are ready to play their part for reigning in robbers, dacoits, drug pushers and smugglers and other outlaws, who had made the life of the common man insecure and miserable in Sindh.
Haleem Sheikh raised questions over the performance of the Sindh Police and its provincial chief and demanded the federal government to take immediate measures for cleansing the police force from corrupt elements. The IGP Sindh is only following the illegal orders of CM Sindh and the PPP leadership.
Sindh’s PTI leader said the law and order situation in the entire province is deteriorating day-by-day that is evident from the report of the Citizen Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) that showed that in the first seven months of 2021, 284 people have been killed in Karachi in robberies.
Sheikh said the CPLC report also mentioned that 30,000 motorcycles and 1,200 cars and other vehicles and 15,000 mobile phones were snatched or stolen during January to July period of 2021 in the provincial capital.
The situation has worsened to the extent that dacoits assault on the motorway after openly challenging the police and innocent people have to suffer due to the inefficiency of the Sindh CM and IGP, he added.
He said in recent weeks, drugs were being recovered from vehicles and residences of police officers but no action was initiated by high-ups against them. “The officers of the police and the district management were enslaved by the Sindh government which did not tolerate honest officers because they turned down the orders of the PPP leadership. They were either declined postings or transferred out of the province,” he added
Shiekh expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Imran Khan, Federal Minister for Planning Asad Umar and the NCOC for making contact with the Sindh government for the removal of unnecessarily harsh restrictions unilaterally imposed in the province.
“Such ill-planned decisions were aimed at destabilising the PTI government and the national economy,” he said. He said a majority of residents could not sustain complete closure of trade and business activities.
Haleem Adil said that it did not seem a winning team because their captain was incapable. The distribution of posts depicts that the PPP has realised that their game was going to be over, he said.
